Damian Barker is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern – his fortune in excess of 100 million and who should inherit it on his death. COMING OUT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous. Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir!

Михаил Елизаров написал жесткий и смешной памфлет, бичующий нынешние времена и нравы. «Pasternak» — это фантастический боевик, главная тема которого — ситуация в православии, замутненном всевозможными, извне привнесенными влияниями. Схема романа проста, как и положено боевику: есть положительные герои, этакие картонные бэтмены, искореняющие зло, и есть само Зло — чудовищный вирус либерализма рasternak, носители которого маскируют духовную слабость разговорами об «истинных человеческих ценностях». Символ подобного миросозерцания — псевдоевангельский роман Бориса Пастернака «Доктор Живаго». С точки зрения героев романа, его мнимая духоподъемность вреднее популизма «Мастера и Маргариты» или ересей Толстого. Литература — а вслед за ней и жизнь — не должны отклоняться от заветов Святого Писания: ты либо следуешь канонам и правилам, либо просто грешишь. Главные борцы с вирусом рasternak'a кровью и мечом искореняют неверных — рериховцев и язычников. Внедряются в «ближний круг» противника, в катакомбы, чтобы в духе голливудских боевиков взорвать ситуацию изнутри. Однако главные их враги — реформаторы Истинного Знания, корежащие православие именно с помощью художественной литературы. К ним борцы за веру не знают ни жалости, ни участия. А мимо проезжают поезда и пролетают «мерседесы». Короче, как написали бы раньше, «автор дает широкую панораму современной жизни». Выходит остроумно и легко, с хорошо выстроенной композицией и массой дополнительных смыслов.

Praise for André Alexis's previous books:"Astonishing. . an irresistible, one-of-a-kind work." — Quill & Quire"Alexis [has an] astute understanding of the madly shimmering, beautifully weaving patterns created by what we have agreed to call memory." — Ottawa CitizenThere were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery.André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it's very bucolic — too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiancé doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature — mayors walking on water, talking sheep — with a profound crisis of faith.André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid and the Wolf.

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a hilarious, inventive, unforgettable collection of stories.His remarkable first collection of stories was hailed by The New York Times as "the debut of an exciting new voice in fiction." Garrison Keillor called him wildly funny, pure, generous-all that a great humorist should be." With this new collection, George Saunders takes us even further into the shocking, uproarious and oddly familiar landscape of his imagination.The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity-and our humanity-in a startling new light. Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self-help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been "crapping in your oatmeal," Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.George Saunders has been identified as a writer in the tradition of Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut-"a savage satirist with a sentimental streak," said The New York Times. In this new collection, Saunders brings greater wisdom and maturity to the worldview he established with CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, leaving no doubt about his place as the brilliant successor to these writers.

Garsios anglų rašytojos Joannos Trollope dar vienas populiarus romanas apie šiuolaikinės moters gyvenimą, tiksliau — apie pastoriaus žmoną, buities ir savo ypatingų priedermių įstumtos į aklavietę.

Desde sus primeros pasos en la militancia política hasta el reencuentro feliz, años después, con la Patagonia y la Tierra del Fuego, con sus poblados y sus gentes, perdidos en la desolada inmensidad del paisaje, como el tren que da título al libro. Así, conocemos a marineros vagabundos, profesores más aficionados al casino y los prostíbulos que a las aulas, ricas familias con problemas de descendencia, bardos de la región, locutores altruistas o aviadores enloquecidos.

One day, a bottle almost hits us. It’s a brown quart bottle that falls out of the sky. We are in the arroyo, the dogs and me, walking…

In this novel about dissidence and exile, a man is confronted with the decision to either desert his family or let his homeland be ravaged.When Wu I-wan starts taking an interest in revolution, trouble follows: Winding up in prison, he becomes friends with fellow dissident En-lan. Later, his name is put on a death list and he’s shipped off to Japan. Thankfully, his father, a wealthy Shanghai banker, has made arrangements for his exile, putting him in touch with a business associate named Mr. Muraki. Absorbed in his new life, I-wan falls in love with Mr. Muraki’s daughter, and must prove he is worthy of her hand. As news spreads of what the Japanese army is doing back in China, I-wan realizes he must go back and fight for the country that banished him. The Patriot is an engrossing story of revolution, love, and reluctantly divided loyalties.

A story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain, conflicted art students.At their New England art school, Paulina and Fran both stand apart from the crowd. Paulina is striking and sexually adventurous — a self-proclaimed queen bee with a devastating mean-girl streak. With her gorgeous untamed head of curly hair, Fran is quirky, sweet, and sexually innocent. An aspiring painter whose potential outstrips her confidence, she floats dreamily through criticisms and dance floors alike. On a school trip to Norway, the girls are drawn together, each disarmed by the other’s charisma.Though their bond is instant and powerful, it’s also wracked by complications. When Fran winds up dating one of Paulina’s ex-boyfriends, an incensed Paulina becomes determined to destroy the couple, creating a rift that will shape their lives well past the halcyon days of art school.Crackling with bon mots and knowing snapshots of that moment when the carefree cocoon of adolescence opens into the permanent, unknowable future, Paulina & Fran is both a sparkling dance party of a novel, and the debut novel of a writer with rare insight into the complexities of obsession, friendship, and prickly, ever-elusive love.

The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in life.At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest. In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck’s most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought.

"Paw królowej" to opowieść dziejąca się współcześnie w Polsce, w odróżnieniu od bestsellerowej "Wojny polsko-ruskiej…" nie na prowincji lecz w Warszawie. Dorota Masłowska wykreowała nową galerię pełnych humoru postaci, z których zabawnymi przygodami z pewnością zaprzyjaźnią się czytelnicy…

THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD — NOMINATED AUTHOR OF FIELDWORK.Mischa Berlinski’s first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews — Hilary Mantel called it “a quirky, often brilliant debut” and Stephen King said it was “a story that cooks like a mother”—and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world’s most intriguing country: Haiti.When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He’s sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town’s complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. But when Terry falls in love with the judge’s wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski’s gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstood — and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.

From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family, Pearl the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. She will ultimately become the internationally renowned author Pearl S. Buck, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blonde hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. The two embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.Moving out into the world together, the two enter the intellectual fray of the times, share love interests and survive early marriages gone bad. Their shared upbringing inspires Pearl 's novels, which celebrate the life of the Chinese peasant and will eventually earn her both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize. But when a civil war erupts between the Nationalists and Communists, Pearl is forced to flee the country just ahead of angry mobs. Willow, despite close ties to Mao's inner circle, is punished for loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist" friend. And yet, through love and loss, heartbreak and joy, exile and imprisonment, the two women remain intimately entwined.In this ambitious new novel, Anchee Min brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who is now hailed in China as a modern heroine. Like nothing before it, Pearl of China tells the story of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, from the perspective of the people she loved and of the land she called home.

Fiction. "Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer. I have a couple of rules about things I allow myself to like. Rachel breaks all of them and her stories leave me hunting for my rule book. Where is my rule book? Damn her. Bless her. Say what you will. PEE ON WATER is a new way to breathe"-Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Fiction. "Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer. I have a couple of rules about things I allow myself to like. Rachel breaks all of them and her stories leave me hunting for my rule book. Where is my rule book? Damn her. Bless her. Say what you will. PEE ON WATER is a new way to breathe"--Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Mieszkającą w Anglii japońską wdowę Etsuko nieustannie prześladuje wspomnienie samobójstwa córki. Dzień po dniu wraca do przeszłych wydarzeń, szczególnie zaś do upalnego lata w Nagasaki. Tuż po zakończeniu II wojny światowej ona i jej przyjaciele próbowali tam odbudować zrujnowane życie, poradzić sobie w nowej rzeczywistości. Gdy Etsuko przypomina sobie dziwną przyjaźń z Sachiko, zamożną kobietą, która utraciła cały majątek, reminiscencje przybierają dziwne i niepokojące kształty. Przeszłość zlewa się z teraźniejszością, zacierają się granice między jawą a snem.

Antonas – gyvenimo skonį ir meilę praradęs dvidešimt ketverių metų vaikinas – iš gimtojo Hamburgo atskrenda į Niujorką. Čia, Manhetene, judraus megapolio širdyje, jis ne tik kepa blynus dėdės Džimio užkandinėje – jam tenka nerti į painią Alkatraso kalėjimo istoriją. Pasakojimas prikausto dėmesį. Ar pavyko dėdulės Džimio „didvyriams“ – ypač pavojingiems kaliniams – didysis pabėgimas iš smiltainio salos, ar jie įveikė galingą vandenyno srovę. Nejučiomis sugrįžta ir pamestas gyvenimas. Kaip? Gal padeda taisyklės, kurių privalo laikytis Niujorko gyventojai?